Born March 1, 1994, in Stratford, Canada to a single mother, Justin Bieber took second place in a local talent competition but turned into a YouTube phenomenon. He signed a record contract with Usher and became the first solo artist to have four singles enter the Top 40 before the release of a debut album. His record "My World" has gone platinum in several countries. He lives and works in Atlanta.

ChildhoodPop star Justin Bieber was raised by a single mom in the small town of Stratford. Bieber, whose debut album My World hit stores in November 2009, is a true overnight success, having gone from an unknown, untrained singer whose mother posted YouTube clips of her boy performing, to a budding superstar with a big-time record deal, all in just two years. Bieber always had an interest in music. His mother gave him a drum kit for his second birthday and, as he tells it, he was "basically banging on everything I could get my hands on." But it was an obscure talent contest in his hometown, in which the 12-year-old Bieber finished second that put him on the road to superstardom. As a way to share his singing with family, Justin and his mom began posting clips of Bieber performing covers of Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Ne-Yo on YouTube. Within months, Justin was an Internet sensation, with a large following of fans, and an eager manager arranging for the teenager to fly to Atlanta to consider a record deal. There, Bieber had a chance meeting with Usher, who eventually signed the young singer to a contract. Career Highlights

Bieber's first single, "One Time," went certified platinum in his native Canada shortly after its release in May 2009. His album My World matched that success, selling more than 137,000 copies within a week of hitting stores. Bieber broke into the Billboard Top 10 in early 2010 with "Baby," which also featured Ludcris. Bieber soon released My World 2.0 (2010), which offered his growing fan base ten new songs. In 2011, Bieber took to the...

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...History of the Biography
A biography is an in-depth description or account of a person's life. It contains more than basic facts; education, work, relationships, and death. A biography also portrays a subject's experience of these events. Unlike a profile or résumé, a biography presents a subject's life story, giving you an insight into various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.
Biographical works are mostly non-fiction, but fictional biographies can also be used to portray a (fictional) person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in the media transformed the biographies — from books to movies — form the genre known as biography.*
An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and, occasionally, participation of a subject or a subject's children. An autobiography is written by the person themselves, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator or ghost-writer. A Ghost writer is effectively, someone who follows you almost everywhere you go, and writes it down. Then, with the conformation of the person themselves, adds it into the biography that he or she is writing.
One of the best known biographies, “Life of Samuel Johnson" (1791), was written by James Boswell...

...was born and brought up in Houston, Texas. Ours is a family of four with my parents, me and my younger brother. The schooling years of my life were toughest. I struggled a lot in my studies. The standardized procedure of education never interested me.
I was an average student throughout my academic life. Extra-curricular activities like sports, drawing, crafts, etc. were my favorite things. I just remember that it was the second semester of 8th grade when I stood first in class. However, it didn't serve any purpose in motivating me to take up studies seriously. I enjoyed understanding the concepts more than just memorizing ready-made notes. After completion of my schooling and college in the science stream, I chose to become a painter. It was a weird decision taken by me at that time. Today, however, I don't regret it at all.
My career in painting began a smoothly and I was more than happy to grab the right opportunity for which I was waiting so long. Today, I am happy with my life and enjoy it to the fullest. The positive attitude to face hardships brought out the best in me. Today I am looking forward to face the challenges of life in a positive manner.
The content presented in the example above gives only a rough idea of how an autobiography should start; one can use a similar write up as an example of autobiography for college projects. Writing an autobiography is a huge effort and requires patience to put the facts and experiences in a proper manner....

...Kopytoff begins his essay voicing support for Appadurai’s unusual methodology that follows things-in-motion, as if they had biographies and social lives as humans do. “In doing the biography of a thing,” Kopytoff counsels, “one would ask questions similar to those one asks about people” (66). He asks:
What, sociologically, are the biographical possibilities inherent in its “status” and in the period and culture, and how are these possibilities realized? Where does the thing come from and who made it? What has been its career so far, and what do people consider to be an ideal career for such things? What are the recognized “ages” or periods in the thing’s “life,” and what are the cultural markers for them? How does the thing’s use change with its age, and what happens to it when it reaches the end of its usefulness (66-67)?
As a cultural anthropologist, Kopytoff insists that such a biographical approach be culturally informed, for things are culturally constructed as people are culturally constructed. “A culturally informed economic biography of an object would look at it as a culturally constructed entity, endowed with culturally specific meanings, and classified and reclassified into culturally constituted categories” (68).
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Subject: English
Topic: Sample Biography of a Great Lady___ Date: February 11, 2013____
Name of Teacher: Miss Lanie Pantinople Alberca__ No. of Meetings: ___1____ _
TPO: Thereafter reading and analyzing the content of a sample biography, the students will be able to create their own sample biography intended to someone who is a girl, lady or a woman that has been great in their life.
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|LEARNING |LEARNING CONTENT |SKILLS, VALUES, ATTITUDES |LEARNING EXPERIENCE |EVALUATION |REMARKS |
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...African-American female doctor to ever receive a patent, much less than in four different countries (Biography Channel). The lasers on this invention vaporized the films on the eye of the patient without doing any or severe damage to the eye itself.
Patricia now works as an educator to upcoming ophthalmologists at her new Residency Training Program. Ophthalmology has been her main profession throughout her life and even after retiring from her original place of work she was elected to the Center’s Honorary staff (Lindberg, M.D.). As defined by the (Merriam Webster) dictionary her profession is, “a branch that deals with the anatomy, physiology and diseases of the eye.” Another milestone in Bath’s life was that she, “co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, which established that “eyesight is a basic human right” (Biography Channel). However, to get this far in life education was necessary. Bath went to a variety of colleges ranging from Hunter College to Howard University to Colombia University.
Patricia Bath will forever be known as the inventor of a device for cataract surgery, or better known as the Laserphaco Probe. Though facing many obstacles throughout her life Bath overcame them and spun them in her favor to be the first to do many things. To think that this all started with the chemistry set given to her by her mother as a young girl (Biography Channel). Along with her other inspiration she...

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Socrates was born in 470 BC in Circa Athens Greece. His father Sophroniscus was a stone carver and sculpture and his mother was a midwife. He was short and stocky, he had huge eyes and a stubby nose; fortunately he always emphasized the idea that the mind is more important than the looks of the physical body of the thinker. in other words, don't judge a book by its cover. Socrates because was as not a noble did not get a full education, but he did however get some education. Socrates married a woman named Xanthippe, she gave birth to three sons. He said himself that he was not around and didn't have much to do with the upbringing of his children. Socrates's life is chronicled through only a few sources—the dialogues of Plato and Xenophon and the plays of Aristophanes ( Bio. 2011 ).The law at this time required all the men starting at the age of 18 - 60 to serve as soldiers. Socrates served during the Peloponnesian war, he served in the armored infantry. he saved the life a general by the name of Alcibiades.
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...William Wordsworth (1770-1850), an early leader of romanticism in English poetry, ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature.
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From 1787 to 1790 Wordsworth attended St. John's College, Cambridge, always returning with breathless delight to the north and to nature during his summer vacations. Before graduating from Cambridge, he took a walking tour through France, Switzerland, and Italy in 1790. The Alps gave him an ecstatic impression that he was not to recognize until 14 years later as a mystical "sense of usurpation, when the light of sense/ Goes out, but with a flash that has revealed/ The invisible world"--the world of "infinitude" that is "our beings's heart and home."
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...Mini Biography on Destery Smith (Moore)
Destery Smith (aka Destery Moore) was born on February 19, 1991 in Bakersfield CA. From a
young age Destery aspired to be a director in films and now at age 21 he has truly made a
name for himself. He has a love for music, video games, making his own video's, DJing, and
making techno music and with his love for all of these things, he has become famous. He
makes youtube videos with his best friend on a channel called DesandNate where they talk
about anything and everything. It shows their awkward and hilarious sense of humor. He also
has his own channel called CapnDesDes where he does almost the same thing but also adds
a show called proper perversions. If you find yourself looking for an inappropriate laugh,
looking at this show would be wise. These channels have brought him over a million
subscribers and over 93 million youtube video views. He also has a gaming channel called
DesPwns. Somehow with all of this he still has time to create wonderful music and even has a
music single out called Caves of Ice, released on itunes. He has had concerts, DJ’d at
different places, and been invited to many different youtube events. here is a video of him
sharing more about his early life.
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And here’s a lionk to his music.
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